He was known as al-Wuḥāẓī (1), a Damascene—though some said he was from Ḥimṣ.
He transmitted ḥadith from: Mālik ibn Anas, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiya, Ḥammād ibn Shuʿayb al-Kūfī, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, ʿUfair ibn Maʿdān, Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, Sulaymān ibn ʿAṭāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Muhājir, Salama ibn Kulthūm, Muʿāwiya ibn Sallām al-Ḥabashī, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bukhārī—who, together with the rest, all except al-Nasāʾī, reported from him through an intermediary—Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf, Ibn Wārah, Abū Umayya al-Ṭarsūsī, ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, Abū Zurʿa al-Dimashqī, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamza, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ḥawṭiyānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Qāsim al-Rawwās, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Jakkānī (2), and a great many others.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: “Trustworthy.” (3)
Abū Ḥātim said: “Truthful.” (4)
Abū ʿAwāna al-Isfarāʾīnī remarked: “His ḥadith are fair; he was a man of personal reasoning, and he was the riding companion (5) of the jurist Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan on the journey to Mecca (6).”